8 Free Online Law Courses with Certificates

8 Free Online Certificate Courses for Lawyers

We bring you eight totally free online courses from alison.com that will give you introduction to Contracts in Law, Employer – Employee Law, Copyright Law in America, Business Law, Law of Agency and others. Learn law on your own and improve your legal knowledge and career.

Dear colleagues Lawyers, and future colleagues, be a Lawyer does not mean that in the moment of finishing your official education you should finish a process of learning. On the contrary, learning process should be a life long process which never ends. Previous sentence refers to every human being, and every profession. In present time - modern time, education is not just conditioned by physical presence, modern technologies allow us to get knowledge trough random ways and platforms. Using education possibilities on the internet and trough online courses is equal to old-fashioned courses with physical presence required. It is official.

Life long learning process has special meaning for Lawyers. Law as profession is subject of constant changes, and that is the way how it should be. It is very important to follow right steps. Every Lawyer, or future Lawyer should be aware of that.
Laws are continuously changing and this courses will inform you about the methods used to change laws and the reasons for such changes.
In that direction, we bring you eight free online courses on alison.com for your personal upgrade.

1. Diploma in Legal Studies Free Online Course

This course will help you to understand the difference between civil and criminal law, you will learn key legal studies, and upgrade your understanding and knowledge of legal systems. Your knowledge of relationship between the various law-making bodies and learn of the adversary trial system, court hierarchy, the jury system, and civil and criminal procedures will be full filed.
Duration of this course is 10-15 hours, and without video and audio support.
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2. Diploma in Business and Legal Studies Free Online Course

This course will help you to understand the characteristics and functions involved in managing a large scale organization, and it will cover key topics in business and law such as corporate management, accounting, human resources, operations management, types of law, how laws are created, the adversary system, and legal procedures. For those who finish this free online course understanding of HR management, employee relations and operations management, the employment cycle is guaranteed. Also included understanding of accounting concepts like accounting terminology, balance sheets, profit and loss statements.
Duration of this course is 10-15 hours, and without video and audio support.
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3. Legal Studies, Laws and the Judicial System Free Online Course

This course gives you insight into definition of law and the role it plays in society. Trough attendance of this online course you will understand the various characteristics of legal profession e.g. fairness, access, time, values, efficiency, resolution of disputes and the mechanisms in the dispute resolution framework. You will understand the roles of the judge, parliament and courts.
After completing this free online course you will have knowledge of the various particularities of law and legal profession such as righteousness, access, time, standards, efficiency, resolution of disputes and the structure in the dispute resolution.
Duration of this course is 2-3 hours with audio and without video support.

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4. Fundamentals of Business Law Free Online Course

If you decide for this course it will explains you the principles of business law in a clear and easy to understand way, and you will acquire knowledge about principle of sole proprietorship, general partnerships, limited partnerships and incorporation.
We highly recommend this course to business professionals and students of law who would like a greater knowledge and understanding of laws relating to business and commerce.
Duration of this course is 1-2 hours, video and audio support included.

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5. Introduction to Contracts in Law Free Online Course

If you are interested in contracts, way of making, breach, treatment of broken contracts you will choose this course and find all about them. It will help you to understand what is a contract and what is has to be contained to make it so, scenario of a contract agreement and how it was breached, your rights as an injured party as to how a broken contract or breached contract would be remedied, and better understanding of when in certain situations a contract must be used.
Duration of this course is 1-2 hours with audio and video support.

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6. Employer – Employee Law Free Online Course is course where you can learn about law of agency.

This course is place where you can learn everything about law of agency. You will get knowledge about meaning of this term, relationship between agent and principal, three types of authority a principal can give to an agent, agent obligations to a principal and the limits of agent authority.
Duration of this course is 1-2 hours with audio and video support.

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7. Legal Studies – The Adversary Trail System Free Online Course

This course is a useful introduction to those who have desire to learn and understand the role that law plays in modern society and the complexity of the justice and court system, and this course you will gain a good knowledge of civil and criminal procedures including pretrial, post trials and much more.
Duration of this course is 2-3 hours with audio and without video support.

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8. Introduction to Copyright Law in America Free Online Course

This course reviews the structure of copyright under federal law, the basics of legal research and legal citations. If you choose this online course you will get learning outcomes as follows: Understanding the structure of federal law, basics of legal research, legal citations, how to use LexisNexis®, the 1976 Copyright Act, understanding copyright and how is applied to computers, internet, broadcasting, music, and education, software licensing, the GNU® General Public License and free software licenses.
Duration of this course is 4-5 hours with audio and video support included.

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As we said before, this previously mentioned courses will help you to understand legal systems in global or legal branches separately. Very important is the fact that all of this previously mentioned online courses are totally FREE and only thing you may want to pay is optional certificate after completion of the course.

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Legal Research Assistant Job Description

What are the duties of a legal research assistant?

A legal research assistant job is similar to a paralegal, which is a person who works at an entry level in a lawyer’s office. Explore the career requirements for legal research assistants. Learn about education requirements and job duties.

A legal research assistant is a person who needs to know a lot about the law, or at least some branches of the law, but does not do any actual legal work. Legal research assistant is not a lawyer but carries out research on which the paralegal will work, and then the lawyer.

As a legal research assistant, you will be asked to work on either one or several cases. As an example, let’s take one case. Each case will involve at least two parties. The lawyer you work for will represent one of them. It will be up to you to gather information about the other party.

You will get the information you need from libraries, word of mouth, documents or Internet. You may also compose letters and other correspondence; draft briefs, arguments and opinions; interview live witnesses and clients; provide legal advice to clients; appear in court on behalf of clients as part of a legal team.

Duties of a Legal Research Assistant

• Keeps cases organized by establishing and organizing files; monitoring calendars; meeting deadlines; documenting actions; inputting information into file database and case management software

• Helps develop cases by maintaining contact with people involved in the case; scheduling consultations

• Keeps clients informed by maintaining contact; communicating case progress

• Researches new laws, regulations, and processing system changes

Legal Research Assistant Skills

• Reporting Skills
• Research Skills
• Legal Administration Skills
• Litigation
• Client Relationships
• Organization, Planning
• Attention to Detail
• Confidentiality
• Dependability
• Client Confidentiality

Lawyer Biography: Carlo Pedersoli or "Bud Spencer"

Bud Spencer Biography: Western Movies Actor

Bud Spencer, was an Italian actor, professional swimmer and water polo. He is known for action-comedy roles with his long-time film partner Terence Hill. The duo gained world fame and attracted millions to theater seats.

Bud Spencer (born October 31, 1929), born as Carlo Pedersoli, is a famous Italian actor, known for his height 6' 4" (1.93 m) and his past roles in spaghetti westerns. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he later achieved a degree in law, and has registered several patents.

Bud Spencer was born Carlo Pedersoli in Naples (at Santa Lucia). Spencer married Maria Amato in 1960 and together had three children: Giuseppe (1961), Christine (1962) and Diamante (1972).

Spencer established Mistral Air in 1984, but left it to buy a textile mill that produced clothes for children.

He passed away on June 27, 2016 surrounded by his family. He leaves a world in mourning, shy of a cultural icon, a face and name famous around the world, and a body of work that will outlast many generations. Rest in Peace. Grazie, Buddy.

Bud Spencer Swimmer

A successful swimmer in his youth, Spencer was the first Italian to swim the 100 m freestyle in less than one minute. He achieved this on 19 September 1950, when he swam the 100 m in 59.5 s. In the 1951 Mediterranean Games, he won a silver medal in the same 100m freestyle event.

Spencer participated in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland, reaching the semi-finals in the 100 m freestyle (58.8 s heats, 58.9 s semi final). Four years later, in Melbourne, he also entered the semi-finals in the same category (58.5 s heat, 59.0 s semi final). As a water polo player, he won the Italian Championship in 1954, with S.S. Lazio. His swimming career ended abruptly in 1957.

On 17 January 2005 he was awarded with the Caimano d'oro (Gold Caiman) by the Italian Swimming Federation. On 24 January 2007, he received from the Italian Swimming Federation's president Paolo Barelli, swim and water polo coach diplomas.

Bud Spencer and Terence Hill Western Movies

Bud Spencer's first movie role was that of a member of the Praetorian guard in Quo Vadis, a film shot in Italy, in 1951. During the 1950s and part of the 1960s, Spencer appeared in some Italian films but "his career was strictly minor league until the late 1960s."

Spencer then met Terence Hill, with whom he made a large number of Italian Westerns, including God Forgives... I Don't! (1968), They Call Me Trinity (1971) and Trinity Is STILL My Name! (1972). Hill also acted with him in a number of action films, including Watch Out, We're Mad (1974), Odds and Evens (1978) and Who Finds a Friend, Finds a Treasure (1981). These films gathered popularity for both actors, especially in Europe. They made a total of 19 films together.

Spencer also wrote the complete or partial screenplay for some of his movies. His fan base is particularly large in Europe. Spencer's career slowed down after 1983. In the 1990s he acted in the TV action-drama "Extralarge".

Bud Spencer in Politics

In 2005, Pedersoli entered politics, unsuccessfully standing as regional counselor in Lazio for the Forza Italia party. The reason for entering politics was due to a bequest of the then-Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi. Berlusconi was trying to use Spencer's media power to draw in the voters. Spencer has stated: "In my life, I've done everything. There are only three things I haven't been - a ballet dancer, a jockey and a politician. Given that the first two jobs are out of the question, I'll throw myself into politics." The opposition critisized him for engaging in "politica spettacolo" ("showbiz politics").

Get To Know Five Nigerian Sisters Who Just Graduated From Law School Together

Every parent is proud when one of their children graduate Law school but when you have five children graduating Law school at the same time... that is something special.

Five sisters from the same mother and father recently graduated from the Nigerian Law School this week and they are generating quite the social media buzz.

One of the sisters, celebrating her siblings and her success, wrote on her Instagram page,“we’re siblings, of the same man and woman; these are not costumes… we’re actually lawyers! All of us 5″

Photographer Jonah Ajigo of Brookmatrix Photography, who documented their achievement on camera, gave a bit of an origin story for the five cheerful looking sisters and their parents. He wrote;

Tor & Berry met about 35 years ago, and they decided to dedicate their lives to God… for a while it seemed like God was just minding his business and ignoring them.

He gave them 5 children, 5 girls… and we all know Nigeria; they don’t think much of the girl child.

Anyway, fast forward a few years and God decided to shut everyone up!!!!! Ladies and gents I’d like to introduce you to the first parents in Nigeria (I stand corrected) who have 5 KIDS, All GIRLS, All LAWYERS!!!

Congratulations ladies. You are stars in your own right!

Lawyer and Politician: Sadiq Khan Biography

Mayor of London: Sadiq Khan short Biography

Sadiq Khan is a British politician who has been Mayor of London since May 2016. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting (London constituency) from 2005 to 2016. A member of the Labour Party, he is situated on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.

(c) Sadiq Khan facebook page

Sadiq was born in St George’s Hospital in Tooting, growing up on a council estate in Earlsfield. He attended local state schools Fircroft Primary School (where he is now a governor), Ernest Bevin Comprehensive School and Burntwood Girls Secondary School (for sixth form, where it’s mixed!). His father was a London Transport bus driver for more than 25 years.

He married in 1994 to a fellow solicitor in Wandsworth, who was also born and raised in South London. They have 2 daughters who both attend local state schools.

Sadiq was a Councillor for the Tooting ward in the London Borough of Wandsworth from 1994 to 2006 (and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Group for 5 years). He became the youngest councillor in London when first elected at the age of 23.

He was awarded the title of Honorary Alderman for the London Borough of Wandsworth in June 2006 for his long service.

In May 2005 General Election Sadiq was elected as Member of Parliament for Tooting. He was the first ever MP of Islamic faith ever elected in London.

Under the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown he was appointed Minister of State for Communities in 2008, later becoming Minister of State for Transport. A key ally of Labour leader Ed Miliband, he served in Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, Shadow Lord Chancellor, and Shadow Minister for London.

In the May 2010 General Election, Sadiq was re-elected to represent Tooting having received 22,038 votes - getting over 4000 more votes than in the 2005 General Election - on a 68.6% turnout. This represented a rise in both his personal votes, and his share of the vote

Sadiq Khan Legal Career

Prior to becoming the MP for Tooting, Sadiq was a Human Rights solicitor and was a founding partner of one of the country's leading Human Rights firms. In his final year of practising law he was listed as one of the county's leading lawyers in two separate categories of law in the Chambers and Partners directory 2004-05 (Human Rights and Police law).

He has acted in a number of landmark cases in all major Courts (including the European Court of Human Rights, House of Lords, Court of Appeal), and Tribunals.

Sadiq has been a visiting lecturer at the University of North London and London Metropolitan University, and is a former governor of South Thames FE College.

Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London

In the 2016 mayoral election, London has elected its first Muslim mayor, with Sadiq Khan delivering a resounding victory for Labour and ending eight years of Conservative rule at City Hall. After the results were announced , Mr Khan said: “This election has not been without controversy. I am so proud that London has chosen hope over fear and unity over division. I hope we will never be offered such a stark choice again.”

Miranda Rights Definition

Rights of a Suspect: Miranda Rights Origin

The Miranda warning, which can also be referred to as the Miranda rights, is a right to silence warning given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) before they are interrogated to preserve the admissibility of their statements against them in criminal proceedings.

The Miranda warning is part of a preventive criminal procedure rule that law enforcement are required to administer to protect an individual who is in custody and subject to direct questioning.

List of miranda rights

Before any interrogation begins, the police must advise the suspect that:

• they have the right to remain silent;
• anything the suspect does say can and may be used against them in a court of law;
• they have the right to have an attorney present before and during the questioning; and
• they have the right, if they cannot afford the services of an attorney, to have one appointed, at public expense and without cost to them, to represent them before and during the questioning.

The right to counsel include the right to talk to a lawyer before deciding whether to talk to police. If the defendant decides to talk to the police, the right to consult with a lawyer before being interrogated. Defendant also has the right to answer police only through an attorney.

Exceptions to the Miranda rule are: the routine booking question exception; the jail house informant exception and the public safety exception.

What if the Police Fail to Advise Me of My Miranda Rights?

When police officers question a suspect in custody without first giving the Miranda warning, any statement or confession made is presumed to be involuntary, and cannot be used against the suspect in any criminal case. Any evidence discovered as a result of that statement or confession will likely also be thrown out of the case.

History of Miranda rights

Miranda was arrested for the armed robbery of a bank worker.
While in custody of police, Miranda - who had a record for armed robbery, attempted rape, assault and burglary - signed a written confession to the armed robbery. He also confessed to kidnapping and raping an 18-year-old girl 11 days prior to the robbery.

Miranda was convicted of the armed robbery, but his attorneys appealed the case on the grounds that Miranda did not understand that he had the right against self-incrimination. Supreme Court made its landmark Miranda ruling in 1966, Ernesto Miranda's conviction was overturned.

Prosecutors later retried the case, using evidence other than his confession, and he was convicted again. Miranda served 11 years in prison and was paroled in 1972.

Robert Kardashian Biography

Robert Kardashian OJ Simpson Lawyer Biography

Robert George Kardashian (February 22, 1944 – September 30, 2003) was an American attorney and businessman. He became famous as O. J. Simpson's friend and defense attorney during Simpson's 1995 murder trial. 

Born on February 22, 1944, Robert Kardashian is best remembered as a defense lawyer for O.J. Simpson during Simpson’s 1995 trial. Robert was the son of Armenian-American parents who had a successful meat-packing company. He grew up in Los Angeles where he attended Dorsey High School. He then earned a degree in business administration from the University of Southern California in 1966. and later went on to earn a law degree from University of San Diego.

For nearly a decade, Kardashian worked as a lawyer. He soon switched his focus to business. Kardashian, along with his brother and another investor, started up Radio & Records, a trade publication, in 1973. Around this time, he met and befriended football star O.J. Simpson. The two of them started Juice Inc., a corporation with which they owned and operated several frozen yogurt shops.

When he represented O.J. Simpson in the famous 1995 trial, it was the first time he had served in a court in 20 years. Kardashian sat by Simpson throughout the trial.

In the days following the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman, O.J. Simpson stayed the Kardashian home. The public's first glimpse of Robert Kardashian was when he carried Simpson's garment bag the day Simpson returned to Los Angeles from Chicago. Prosecutors speculated that garment bag may have contained Simpson's bloody clothes and/or the murder weapon, but that was never proven.

When Simpson failed to turn himself in at 11 a.m. on June 17, 1994, Kardashian read a letter by Simpson to the news media. The letter was interpreted by many as a suicide note.

Robert Kardashian is the father of reality stars Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe, and Robert Kardashian, Jr., with his former wife Kris Jenner.

After he divorced Kris Jenner in 1991, Robert was engaged for a period of time to Denice Shakarian Halicki, the widow of movie producer H. B. Halicki. In 1998 he married Jan Ashley. That marriage ended in annulment. Six weeks before he died he married Ellen Pierson (née Markowitz).

Robert Kardashian died of esophageal cancer on September 30, 2003 at the age of 59.